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SIGMOD
2001
ACM
229views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
16 years 6 months ago
A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries
The ability to approximately answer aggregation queries accurately and efficiently is of great benefit for decision support and data mining tools. In contrast to previous sampling...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Vivek R. Narasayya
WADS
2007
Springer
184views Algorithms» more  WADS 2007»
16 years 18 days ago
A Pseudopolynomial Time O (log n )-Approximation Algorithm for Art Gallery Problems
In this paper, we give a O(log copt)-approximation algorithm for the point guard problem where copt is the optimal number of guards. Our algorithm runs in time polynomial in n, the...
Ajay Deshpande, Taejung Kim, Erik D. Demaine, Sanj...
SI3D
2006
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Approximate ambient occlusion for trees
Natural scenes contain large amounts of geometry, such as hundreds of thousands or even millions of tree leaves and grass blades. Subtle lighting effects present in such environme...
Kyle Hegeman, Simon Premoze, Michael Ashikhmin, Ge...
STACS
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Worst-Case and Average-Case Approximations by Simple Randomized Search Heuristics
Abstract. In recent years, probabilistic analyses of algorithms have received increasing attention. Despite results on the average-case complexity and smoothed complexity of exact ...
Carsten Witt
CPM
2000
Springer
175views Combinatorics» more  CPM 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Approximate String Matching over Ziv-Lempel Compressed Text
Abstract. We present a solution to the problem of performing approximate pattern matching on compressed text. The format we choose is the Ziv-Lempel family, speci cally the LZ78 an...
Juha Kärkkäinen, Gonzalo Navarro, Esko U...